Meanwhile here in the US we are still using units of  measurement based on old historic terms for strictly…

Meanwhile here in the US we are still using units of  measurement based on old historic terms for strictly ideological reasons…. but under it all are using the metric system for the official definition. 
(see http://www.nist.gov/pml/wmd/metric/upload/frn-59-5442-1959.pdf) 

So here in the US we are using the metric system but that fact has to be masked as many in the nation would  go into an apoplectic rage .

Hurray 

Demise of the Kilogram – Sixty Symbols

The days of a “fixed” kilogram seem to be numbered, with moves afoot to set our SI unites based on f

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